"Self-Fulfulling Prophecies" Exhibition
Koenig & Clinton
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The works in this show reveal a swaggerless, off-handed confidence, and are linked aesthetically by their creators’ overt use of a myriad of contemporary tropes. Minimalism; monochromatic painting; use of language/text; ordinary objects made extraordinary by context; all these make appearances. But appearances can be deceiving, as this generation of artists have dissected and assimilated the methods of their predecessors, and have reinvented the endgame, completely fresh and in their own image. Instead of emulation, these artists have created doppelgangers of a familiar approach. Blurring the lines between irony and sincerity, these artists have obliterated the expectations of either conceit, throwing the viewer momentarily into a bit of a quandary. The dry delivery of a line/image/context, which seems funny at first, becomes a genuine, inclusive observation.
Media
Schedule
from March 04, 2010 to April 10, 2010
Artist(s)
Adel Abdessemed, Dike Blair, Nathan Coley, Rineke Djkstra, Tracey Emin, Jeppe Hein et al.